A Brand New Me

A Brand New Me is the title of British singer Dusty Springfield's sixth studio album, released on the Atlantic Records label in January 1970. The album was also released in the UK some three months later on the Philips Records label, and then under the title From Dusty...With Love. A Brand New Me/From Dusty...With Love was recorded in late 1969 at the Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia and is the only one of Springfield's albums that was ever recorded featuring songs by the same production team for a whole album. Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, who also wrote many songs on the album, went on to have success with many groups and singers in the '70s, among them Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, The O'Jays, MFSB and The Three Degrees. The title track was released as a single in the US in late 1969 and became Springfield's last Top 40 for 17 years, peaking at #24 in early 1970 (it was also a big US Adult Contemporary hit, peaking at #3 on that chart). The British version, From Dusty...With Love was Springfield's last British album to use the singer's name in the title; all but one of her previous five albums had done so. The album had moderate success in the UK, peaking at #35 on their album chart (whereas in the US, it stalled at #107).

In 1992 Atlantic Records/Warner Music Group's sublabel Rhino Entertainment re-released a digitally remastered edition of A Brand New Me in the US, featuring nine bonus tracks originally issued as A- and B-side singles in the US in the years following the A Brand New Me album's release, among them recordings made with both Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin and Ellie Greenwich as well as tracks from a shelved second album with Gamble & Huff, and one track recorded for Philips Records, but never released by Atlantic (Springfield's contract with Atlantic allowed them to release Philips recordings). Some of these recordings were first issued in the UK on the 1972 album See All Her Faces (which had no US counterpart), others would remain unavailable in the UK for another ten years until PolyGram released an expanded edition of Dusty in Memphis as part of their mid-price series Reflections, entitled Dusty in Memphis Plus and released on the Mercury Records label in the UK and the rest of Europe in September 1980.

From Dusty...With Love was first issued on CD by Philips Records/PolyGram and re-issued in Europe in the early 1990s. A digitally remastered CD edition of From Dusty...With Love was released by Mercury/Universal Music Group in the UK/Europe in 2002, featuring alternate versions of recordings from the 1970 Gamble & Huff sessions as bonus tracks.